Dr. David Cheever, Jr., '97, professor of surgery in the Medical School, and leader of the second University Medical Unit, will arrive in New York today on the S. S. "Philadelphia" of the American Line. With Dr. Cheever are Dr. L. Bremer '96 and several other members of the unit who were unable to enlist for the full six months. Dr. W. E. Faulkner '87, Associate in Surgery at the Medical School, and a member of the first unit, has sailed to take Dr. Cheever's place as leader.
The present unit, which left New York on November 16, will continue its work until about the middle of May. The thirty surgeons who comprise the party include a surgical staff, a medical staff, dentists, a pathologist, a bacteriologist, a roentgenologist, and specialists in the eye and ear. Thirty-six graduate nurses complete the unit. The party went for service under the British War Office, under a clause in the Geneva Convention which allows neutral nations to send sanitary and medical aid to the scene of hostilities without sacrificing their neutrality. The members of the unit have, therefore, not been commissioned as British officers, but received rank corresponding to that of officers.
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